"Microsoft Office XP Standard for Students and Teachers"

I installed a new hard drive on my cpu with out transfering any info from the old one. I have a store bought copy of windows xp but I have lost the office suit that came with my aptiva. I have put the software disk that came with the cpu but I now can't get it to run! I need office for work so the cheapest solotion I have come up with is to buy xp office student edition. I don't want to buy it and then find out I have to have some kind of key code from a school. Dose any one know if this will be a problem?

Student editions are really full versions for students that can't afford the retial price.

The only stipulation (according to the agreements in the software), is that you can't use it if you're a business (or for non-scholastic reasons). Not like MS or anywone else would/could ever find out, but that's just how they market it...

I don't know about MS wherever you are located, but I know that their mates from Adobe here in Oz (both firms are in the same Association) wrote me a stiff letter recently about Pagemaker because I had had a registered business name (which lapsed about 5 years ago!) so they assumed that I was using PM for business purposes. The letter advised me to make sure that everything Adobe on my computer was kosher or face crippling fines.

Though no one ever turned up to check, that was the threat in the letter.

I know about search warrants and such, nevertheless you only need some disgruntled colleague to dob you in and you could be facing unpleasantness. The law is increasingly on the side of the powerful these days.

Just a word of caution about using Academic software.

I have tried 602's Word processor as an alternative to Word 97, but found that it will open and edit Word files, but they are often corrupted if reopened in Word. Then again, Word isn't bad at corrupting its own files. And I have successfully exchanged files between Word 97 and Star Office, but don't know what happens if you try the back and forth method.

The critical words were,
"I need office for work so the cheapest solotion I have come up with is to buy xp office student edition."

It may mean that iknownothin is, like most of us, a "mere functionary" where he works, whose home computer would never draw any attention to itself, but I wasn't about to assume that.

Additionally, I think we all need to be aware of the legal situation, regardless of how far we are willing to take risks with our use of software. The peculiar structures of software marketing means that many users seem to be in a legal grey area even when they use lawfully acquired software.

Personally, I am sure that the market prices for most software are vastly inflated to the point where the software companies are morally, if not legally, in the company of extortionists and street gangs. The difference in price between the full product and OEM/Academic/upgrade versions is a clue. But that conviction does not change how things currently are.

I have MS Office XP professional. I bought this program along with the computer from my next store neighbor.. QUESTION; when I try to update /upgrade the XP it will put me in a "sandbox mode" I realy don't care what that is ...I only want to know how do I get around this so I can continue working on my program.. any help I would truely appreciate

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If you don't want to worry about Keys and don't want to pay money, download a copy of OpenOffice.org for Windows, which Opens, Saves and edits Microsoft Office files. Get the Go Pack to get a copy of OpenOffice.</div>
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